ALBANY (AP) — New York state is partnering with a British company to hold clinical trials for marijuana-based medication for children who have seizures that are resistant to their medicine. An agreement was signed Sunday between Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s administration ...

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WASHINGTON — A senior U.S. drug enforcement official urged Congress and others Tuesday not to abandon scientific concerns over marijuana in favor of public opinion to legalize it, even as the Obama administration takes a hands-off approach in states where ...

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WASHINGTON, D.C. — At oral arguments this week, the justices of the U.S. Supreme Court grilled attorneys arguing over whether a permanent resident caught with just enough marijuana to roll a few cigarettes committed an “aggravated felony” that rendered him ...

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ALBANY — A marijuana decriminalization bill has revealed the first friction between Democratic Gov. Andrew Cuomo and his strong, fiscal allies in the Senate’s Republican majority. Cuomo said Wednesday the Senate majority was being led by ultra-conservatives in opposing his ...

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Thomas M. O’Brien Jr., 54, of Honeoye Falls, has been sentenced by U.S. District Judge Charles J. Siragusa to six months of home confinement and three-years of probation for possession and distribution of cocaine and marijuana. Assistant U.S. Attorney Brett A. Harvey said O’Brien obtained about 45 grams ...

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LOCH SHELDRAKE — Authorities have charged a 30-year-old New York woman with endangering the welfare of a child after police say her toddler wandered into an upstate road clutching a bag of marijuana.

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Robert A. Storch, 51, of West Virginia, has pleaded guilty before U.S. District Judge Charles J. Siragusa to conspiracy to possess and distribute 100 kilograms or more of marijuana.

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If you created a new blend of a certain medicinal herb, and you wanted to trademark a name like “Jack and Jackie’s Wacky Tobacky” or “McDuff’s Puff Stuff,” you may have thought you were in luck.

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LYONS — Authorities say six people have been arrested after 1,000 marijuana plants were found growing at several locations in a three-county area of the Finger Lakes region.

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